Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-20
TACenA HKws.

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Colonel ProsseF. Of Prosser Falls
stopped In Tacoma yesterday.
Mr.. Davies, 9 prominent merchant o!
oesttle, vas IN town yesterday.
Judge Evans vent 70 Olympia yestsr-
day TO attend the SupFeme Court. nov
/ in session.
Dr.. O. W. Harvey took a trip yester-
day 10 Henderson Bay IN kia new BOAT,
the Bessie Harvey.
Pyksis Opera Company will have q
large audience Ct this place. Reserved
seats are RoiHg on like hot cakes.
The many friends Of the Rev. J. r.
DeVere will be pleased 70 hear that he
ia recovering frsm bis late severe illness.
what's the matter With Scatter We
hear Of good maRy Saattleitss visiting
Tacoma on prospecting tours. Come
cut.
O. NJ. Esterday has been appointed by
tbs Supreme Court United States Com.
missioner at Tacoma sies J. II. Wilt, re-
signed.
Mr.. Mcpherson expects very soon 10
occupy the elegant new Office Of the
Canadian Pacific, row beiae fitted up
on Pacific Avenue.
The corps OF angineers at work at
Eagle Gorge havs received orders fFem
headquarters 30 not cease work day nor
night gill through trains are running.
We were shown yesterday. by Messrs.
Daniels q Proctor, some very finely ex-
eoutsd plans for q handsome taree-
story business block, 10 be erected on A
street.
Information was reosived here yestsF-
day from Los Angeles, California. Of
the death, az that place. OF Mr.. Jamea
Cammines. lately 10 the employ Of the
Northern Paoine at this place.
The Tacoma Guards are becoming
very proficient IN the art Of drilling.
The Rides had better look we'll to their
lauFals II they do net want 10 surrender
them 10 the terminus company.
The p1lice offseFs are making Il troy
zeal for gang of thieves who have been
infestinR the terminus. Oar chain
gang begirs 10 look like q little army,
aad sill the good work goes bravely on.
We are discussing she feasibility Of
raising 5000 TO insure the performance
here Of Emma Abb1tt. ISIS high. bat
the people seam 70 want her 10 come
here. as an advertisement, II nething
ESQ.
Mr.. De Raaslsff, the genial civil en-
gineeF, expects 10 leave for Panama In
4 day or tgo, going via the Canadian
Pacific 10 New York. Mr.. De Raaslod
viii be remembered 80 9 former jour
nalist Of seattle. During Wizards
regime be held high position with ths
Northern Pacific Company at Tacoma
Judge Campbell is quits a slaeReE
when u comes to vags. Yesterday
morning he knocked out Joha Sullivan
to she tame Of $40 and costa, following
/ IL 40 with the same dose 70 Johu fohe,
Robt. Darrell. Wm Hammond and
John Mack, all 90 the same charge;
committed. Henry Malone got g. and
costs for interfering With an officer In
the discharge Of datY; committed. ap
peaied after oammiltal. 10 Judge
Lawrence's Court, n. Harvey and Geo.
Mailman got s. and costs tor vagFancy,
Pat Glacksn SIS and eosas for she same
charRe; ell committed. Leo Behfeno
assaulted HenFy KeeaerF. for which be
paid & and costs.
The following letter. which explains
itself. was published IN the Nesrs this
evening"
OLD TACOMA, Jaa. II, 1857.
Having sean 10 your eoiamna an aTtt-
ole written and signed by the President
and Secretary Of the StevedoFes and
Isnngshoremenis Unisn. 10 the effect
that John N. Cunningham with crew
Of fersign lAboEers vas beading the
bark sarah S. Ridgsway, would state
that said article ID an entire misi axe.
TIE crew vas shipped by myself In
Port Townsend and brought 10 this port
/ for the ssle purpose Of loading she yes
eel under my own personal sapeFvtsions
and % 10 the present time, n0twith-
standing the many an1oyanees 10
which | have been subjected. have
succeeded in stoVinR more lumber
thaA any vessel lyina 81 the NH wharf.
John n. Cunningham IL employed By
me a. q day laboFer. and receives pay
for his services as such. Ne h entirely
disinserested with she orev, and there
can be no blame Att ehed 10 him foF
obtaining employment outside the
union. Many Of the remaining Unien-
isls, IL the present element conlinuea 70
exist and control that bedy, viii Be
seeking situations elsewhere than 10
Old Tacoma vas obliged 20 employ
the ao-opsFated sleEedores a. this port
10 sepasnb~F lasl, owing 10 the Tact
that no men would ship In q vessel
chartered % load 81 TAeoma Mil. The
constant annoyance which vas forced
20 endure and my caFefal watching Ter.
| minated in little use. - I was eompsilss
20 break out 6o,oc1 feet ct lumber aftsl
IL having been slowed, and ~ the Iona
shoFemsn nov resort 70 misdeDeanorl
hensath q scAb, I prefer the scabs.
II. O. fowNsKND.
Master Am.bark Sarah 8. RidRewAy.